Hell on Earth
Let's face it. There are some people on this planet that make life a living hell for everyone else. Sometimes it's an entire governement like that in Burma, otherwise known as Myanmar. When the destructive tsunami struck four years ago they wouldn't let aid workers in to help. They could give a damn about the poor people. And now with word that maybe 100,000 have been killed, they're not letting foreign aid workers in again.
Every day the death toll rises!
Not only are we now estimating 100,000 dead, there are 2-3 million homeless! The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar is unimaginable! The information we are receiving indicates over 100,000 deaths," the U.S. Charge D'Affaires in Yangon, Shari Villarosa, said on a conference call. The U.S. figure is almost five times more than the 22,000 the Myanmar government has estimated.
The U.S. estimate is based on data from an international non-governmental organization, Villarosa said without naming the group. She called the situation in Myanmar "more and more horrendous." "I think most of the damage was caused by these 12-foot storm surges," she said. Villarosa also said about 95 percent of the buildings in the delta region were destroyed when Cyclone Nargis battered the area late Friday into Saturday.
Based on the same data, 70,000 people are missing in the Irrawaddy Delta, which has a population of nearly six million people, Villarosa said. The official Myanmar government figure for the missing is 41,000.
Little aid has reached the area since Nargis hit, and on Wednesday crowds of hungry survivors stormed reopened shops in the devastated Irrawaddy delta. The United Nations urged the military junta to grant visas to international relief workers amid estimates of one million homeless. A United Nations official said nearly 2,000 square miles (5,000 square km) of the hard-hit delta are still underwater. See amateur video of the cyclone's crashing ashore »
Charity workers have gathered at Myanmar's embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, with vehicles, emergency food supplies and medicine, waiting for their visa requests to be approved. People are dying and the military junta is doing NOTHING! "We need this to move much faster," said John Holmes, UN humanitarian chief, after reading a statement from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
There were earlier reports of "civil unrest" in the worst-hit areas where people are scrambling for limited food supplies, a U.N. spokesman told CNN. Can you blame them? In the flood-soaked Irrawaddy delta townships, U.N. assessment teams observed "large crowds gathering around shops -- the few that were open -- literally fighting over the chance to buy what food was available," World Food Program spokesman Paul Risley said Wednesday from his office in Bangkok.
Welcome to hell, otherwise known as the Irrawaddy delta near Rangoon.
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